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Does Minnesota need a higher minimum wage?

Does Minnesota need a higher minimum wage?

“A minimum wage debate is expected to heat up again next year when state lawmakers return for the start of the 2014 legislative session,” writes MPR News reporter Tim Pugmire. “The state minimum wage is $6.15 an hour, but most workers earn at least the federal minimum of $7.25. Democrats in charge of the Legislature…
by Michael Olson

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Poll: Four-way tie in Minneapolis mayor’s race

The Minneapolis mayor’s race lacks anything resembling a front-runner, according to the first public poll conducted in the contest. Less than two months before election day, no candidate musters more than a meager 16 percent of first-choice votes, the Star Tribune reports. City Council Member Don Samuels and former Council President Dan Cohen were tied…
by Curtis Gilbert

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Dreaded ‘S-curves’ complicate freight paths for Southwest LRT

  The colored spaghetti noodles on this map represent the many attempts light-rail planners have made to find a new freight path through St. Louis Park that is acceptable to the railroads. Engineers with the Southwest LRT project have been busy, and they’re about to get busier. Sometime over the next two weeks, they’ll meet…
by Laura Yuen

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Do you take steps to avoid sitting too much during the workday?

Do you take steps to avoid sitting too much during the workday?

http://vimeo.com/8267567 “It’s been a decade since scientific studies began to show that too much sitting can lead to obesity and increase the risk of developing diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease,” writes Sam Nananel for the Associated Press. “Even going to the gym three times a week doesn’t offset the harm of being sedentary…
by Michael Olson

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Firefighters battling downtown Winona blaze

Firefighters battling downtown Winona blaze

Winona firefighters are fighting a growing, early morning blaze in the center of the city that the Winona Daily News says began at the Islamic Center. There are no injuries reported so far. MPR reporter Tim Nelson spoke with Jerome Christenson, the deputy editor of the Winona Daily News who has been at the scene,…
by Hart Van Denburg

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Mpls. schools settlement with Broadway students available in 2014

Minneapolis Public Schools announced Wednesday that they’ve reached a settlement with some students who attended Broadway High School during years that unqualified teachers were leading classes. MPR News spoke with Minneapolis Public Schools Assistant General Counsel Cedrick Frazier about the settlement.
by Jon Collins

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Charges: accused airport bomb threat maker admits to saying something dumb

A French citizen has been charged with making a bomb threat in Terminal 2 of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport earlier this week.  According to charges filed yesterday in Hennepin County District Court, on Monday, Sept. 9, Jean-Luc Ly Ly-Payia, 30, of Grigny, France, carried a black bag into a bathroom stall and announced,…
by Brandt Williams

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Report examines affect of changing land use on rural economy

Report examines affect of changing land use on rural economy

(Prairie Pothole Region outlined in blue. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey.) Land use in the Prairie Pothole Region of the upper Midwest has been shifting at an extraordinary rate in recent years, according to a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey. Land enrolled in the Federal Conservation Reserve Program continues to decline at a rapid…
by Dan Gunderson

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